Friends - for reasons we all know by now, the Open Studios at Bridgeport Art Center have been canceled for the Month of May. Perhaps we will be on for June?

UPCOMINGOpen StudioBridgeport Art Center 3rd Fridays Event FRIDAY, June 19, 2020, from 7-10pm 1200 W. 35th Street Chicago, IL 60609 Parking lot is to the north of the building off of Racine. Directions to My Space:I'm located in Studio OA1050 on the River Level (fancy way of saying basement!) Enter the building from the parking lot (north entrance under the bright blue awning) and go directly down the stairs and all the way down the very long corridor - follow the lights and the music and you can't miss me.

BIOGRAPHY/WORK STATEMENTPamela Staker is a Chicago-based contemporary artist. She started out as a Math Major at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign and after 1 ½ years migrated to the Art Department where she graduated with a BFA in Painting. Staker has received several grants and awards including an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship and a CAAP Individual Artist Grant from the City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs. Her work is represented in numerous private and corporate collections including The Sophy Hyde Park, Chicago, IL, The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, and Cascade Hills Country Club, Grand Rapids, MI. She recently relocated her studio to The Bridgeport Art Center (BAC) in Chicago and is available by appointment or once a month at the BAC Third Friday Open Studio Events.

Staker examines abstraction through a compiled visual language of urban elements, geometric shapes, bold color combinations, and pops of nature. Her process is energetic, creating works that are animated fragments of modern life – sometimes messy, often beautiful.

I recently partnered with iCanvas.com They provide high quality, affordable reproductions including 70+ examples of my work.

I am thrilled to have several works in the permanent collection of the newly opened Sophy Hyde Park Boutique Hotel.

I am pleased to announce that I was selected for inclusion in the International Issue 13, June 2016 of Fresh Paint Magazine by curator Rebecca Wilson, Chief Curator and VP, Art Advisory at Saatchi Art.